korkus2000 - 6:55 pm on Mar 27, 2002 (gmt 0)

Use the outer glow layer effect in photoshop. I find that a blur of 2 will give you a crisp outline. You may have to rev up to 5.5. I don't remember if 5.0 had layer styles/effects. I like to outline a lot of text so I just built an action for it. You also don't have to rasterize the text layer.